Cash-carrier



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G. E. GREEN.

CASH CARRIER.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE F. GREEN, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF TWO THIRDS TOOLIVER S. KELLEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

CASH-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 386,314, dated July 17,1888.

Application filed October 1,1887. Serial 110.2151225.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. GREEN, of Kalamazoo, in the county ofKalamazoo and State of Michigan, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Electrical Cash and Parcel Carriers; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full and accurate description of thesame.

In Letters Patent No. 338,663, granted to me March 23, 1886, there isshown and described a suspended track and a car to travel on the sa me,propelled by electricity, to carry cash and parcels from one part of astore to another. The track is at intervals provided with hooks whereonlittle bucketsl containing the cash maybe hung, andthe car is providedwith a hook whereon all of said buckets are gathered as the car movestoward the cashiers desk. Other devices are also shown and describedwhereby buckets are returned with the proper change and automaticallydeposited at the place from which it was taken.

My present invention relates to improvements in the devices for takingup and redepositing the little buckets in which the cash is contained. l

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation of the same. Fig.3 is an elevation of the cash-bucket. Fig. 4 is a iront view showing thestops or abutmeuts which hold the bail ofthe bucket from horizontalmovement.

A is the track, and B is the car to travel thereon. At convenientdistances apart the track is provided with Apendent hooks C, forconvenience called stations.7 These hooks are all at the same distancebelow the track and practically in line with each other. station thereis a little bucket-shaped receptacle, D, in which the cash paid isdeposited and the proper change returned by the cashier. Vhen a paymenthas been made, the money y is deposited in one of these little numberedAt each- (No model.)

will pass unerringly through the handles or hails of the several bucketsas they hang on the several station-hooks O. At each station there isalso another hook, F, for convenience placed at the opposite side of thetrack, and the bucket is left hanging on said hook F when the carreturns. There is att-ached to the car a series of individual hooks orlatches, G, with numbers correspondimg` with the stationnumbers, towhich the cashier attaches the coi-respondugly-numbered buckets fordelivery at the proper stations.

This invention more particularly concerns the hooks F and G.

The hooks G are placed at different elevations and in different planes,laterally, and each station-hook F has its point located in the plane ofone of said hooks, so that it will pass into the bail of the bucketwhich rests iu said hook, but will not engage any other.

The car frequentlymoves with considerable speed, and when the bucket,loaded with coin, issuddenly taken off its hook G and arrested in itsmovement the momentum causes agreat strain upon the bucket, and willsometimes cause the bottom or bail to be torn loose. I have thereforemade a bend in my hook F, around which said bucket will slide whendelivered from the carrying-hook G, and by frictional retardation takeup its momentum without damage to the bucket or contents. The bendreferred to isshown at h. It is a return-bend in a horizontal plane, orthereabout, and adds a change of direction to the mere sliding friction.The bucket will swing and slide around this horizontal bend, but wouldnot pass around a bend upward.

The hooks G are pivoted on the carriage, and each swings across anabutment or stop 'formed by a notch, t', in which the bail or handle ofthe bucket is placed, and restrained from moving with thesustaining-hook G as said hook is withdrawn to release the bucket. Thisis shown more clearly in Fig. 4, Where the bail of the bucket isrepresented iu position in said notch. In this ligure the hook is shownin dotted lines, and it will be evident that when the hook is struck byits trip m and moved to the position shown the portion of the stop tothe left of the notcht in this figure holds the bail from moving` withthe hook as it is moved. An additional stop may be provided, as shown atthe right-hand side of the notch z', for the purpose of preventing thebail from being accidentally jolted otf from the end of its hook.

The station'hooks F have to bend around under the track toa greater orless distance to reach the plane of their own hook G, andl thereforefind it convenient to place said hooks G not only in different planeslaterally, but at different elevations also. In arranging said hooks andstations the hook which is farthest in advance is also the lowest inelevation and nearest the middle of the track, and it belongs to thestation most distant from the cashiers desk, so that the bucketsuspended upon it is last to be removed.

Each hook G has an extended end or nger, k, which projects above itspivot, and there is for each station a permanent pin or trip, m,adjusted so that said linger k will engage said trip after the point ofthe hook F has entered the bail of the bucket hanging on said hook G,and said hook will thereby be withdrawn and the bucket suffered to droponto the station-hook F.

The buckets D have heretofore been provided with hinged lids and thebail attached lto the lid. I now make them with the bail pivoted to theside of the bucket and the lid'rigidly attached to the bail, and'toenable the lid to be removed l cut the upper end ofthe bucket on a lineoblique to the axis of' the bucket, as at p, or on a curved line havingthe pivot of the bail as an axis, as shown in the drawings at x. Then asthe bail is moved on said axis it will carry the lid on or oli" thebucket, as the case may be.

When cash is sent to the cashier, it is necessary that it shall beaccompanied by a ticket indicating the amount to be deducted, and it isldesirable vto attach said ticket to the outside of the bucket ratherthan to place it inside, and Itherefore provide a ticket-holder-such asa hook or a clip,N, to the outside ofeach bucketto receive and hold theticket in sight.

`Having described my invention, I claiml. The cash carrier carriage Band cash- 'buckets D, combined with the track A and different line fromthe others, the cash-buck? ets, the receiving-hooks at the severalstations situated correspondingly to the delivery hooks, graduatedtrip-fingers, and a series of supporting-hooks, one at each station, inline with the single gatheringhook, all substan` tially as described.

` GEORGE F. GREEN.

Witnesses:

ED C. PARSONS, BEACH A. HALL.

